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Poverty and the Workforce

dc.contributor.author Bradbury, Bruce en_US
dc.contributor.author Encel, Diana en_US
dc.contributor.author James, Jenny en_US
dc.contributor.author Vipond, Joan en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T16:15:58Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T16:15:58Z
dc.date.issued 1988 en_US
dc.description.abstract This report extends our earlier work by looking at the relationship between poverty and the workforce. It utilises data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in the unit records from the 1981-82 Income and Housing Survey. Although the position of the labour market has deteriorated considerably since then, the report brings together an extensive analysis of these data and discusses the implications of subsequent labour market developments. The report thus draws together work on poverty and the broader question of the social welfare implications of labour market changes. The recognition that the alleviation of poverty can only come about in a sustainable way through wider access to employment opportunities has been long-standing in Australia. The Commission of Inquiry into Poverty noted in its first Main Report released in 1975 that 'the dominant factor which determines poverty is whether or not the head of the income unit is able to work' (p.16). The current report emphasises the relevance of this observation to the situation prevailing a decade after the work of the Poverty Commission. The need to recognise the central role of employment and labour market policies aimed at maintaining high employment levels is as pressing now as it ever was. Full employment must be seen as a major objective of both economic and social policy. Fresh emphasis to these concerns has been given by recent government policy initiatives aimed at developing a more effective integration of income support and labour market policies. The need to continue on this path has been reinforced in the recently released Social Security Review Issues Paper, Income Support for the Unemployed in Australia: Towards a More Active System. Although this report was prepared prior to the Social Security Review's paper, I hope that it will contribute to the debate which promises to have a major bearing on the development of income support and labour market policies appropriate for Australia in the 1990s and beyond. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 0858236850 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/45325
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher Social Welfare Research Centre en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Reports and Proceedings en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other Australia en_US
dc.subject.other Workforce en_US
dc.subject.other Poverty en_US
dc.title Poverty and the Workforce en_US
dc.type Working Paper en
dcterms.accessRights open access
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/1009
unsw.publisher.place Sydney en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofworkingpapernumber 72 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Bradbury, Bruce, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Encel, Diana, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation James, Jenny, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Vipond, Joan, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school Social Policy Research Centre *
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